Matthew Sinclair, director of the TaxPayers’ Alliance and author of a new book on climate policy, Let Them Eat Carbon, said, “The public deserve to know just how much they are paying for draconian climate regulations.

“Greater transparency would be a welcome step to a more honest and informed debate over emissions trading, subsidies for renewable energy and other attempts to cut emissions that require hundreds of billions of pounds of investment in the energy sector this decade.

Sinclair added that the Government would have to be completely honest with the releasing of published levies.

“Any estimates printed on people’s bills would need to be complete, though, [including] all of the costs created by the key environmental targets, and be updated as the cost rises each year.

“We can’t just have the fantasy-land figures dreamed up by the Department of Energy and Climate Change included with the bills that land on people’s doormats.”

Sinclair’s words come after Conservative MP, and chair of the Energy and Climate Change Committee, Tim Yeo, said that the “danger is that the levies are now hidden.”

“We need to be honest with the public that we need to keep the lights on and in a low carbon way, and the consequence of that is higher bills. Then there can be a rational debate over which renewables are most cost-effective.”